If you’re in a book club, how do you decide what books to read? There are lots of different ways, depending on your group’s goals. And is it ever wise to correct someone who mispronounces a word? Sometimes you have to decide if...
Laura in Tucson grew up hearing her West Virginia grandmother use tight as a tick for a room packed with people, and wondered whether it referred to a blood-swollen tick or the tick of a clock. It’s the blood-fed tick, whose body can become taut and...